Comments on: Are you Swaddling your Manuscript? http://writerunboxed.com/2006/05/10/are-you-swaddling-your-manuscript/ about the craft and business of fiction Mon, 21 May 2012 05:07:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Elena Greene http://writerunboxed.com/2006/05/10/are-you-swaddling-your-manuscript/#comment-688 Elena Greene Thu, 11 May 2006 15:50:00 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2006/05/10/are-you-swaddling-your-manuscript/#comment-688 When you call your manuscript your baby you <I>do</I> run the risk of sounding too precious. BUT the analogy is so valid, including the labor pains, the hair loss, even post-manuscript depression. There are some encouraging differences, though. A manuscript baby can sleep peacefully in your drawer until you figure out what's wrong with it, and in the meantime you can gestate another one. When you call your manuscript your baby you do run the risk of sounding too precious.

BUT the analogy is so valid, including the labor pains, the hair loss, even post-manuscript depression.

There are some encouraging differences, though. A manuscript baby can sleep peacefully in your drawer until you figure out what’s wrong with it, and in the meantime you can gestate another one.

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